Why Is This Website Port Scanning Me? — and DirectX is coming to the Windows Subsystem for Linux

Issue #44 — May 21, 2020

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Why Is This Website Port Scanning Me? nullsweep.com \| points: 913 \| comments: 357

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DirectX is coming to the Windows Subsystem for Linux devblogs.microsoft.com \| points: 694 \| comments: 494

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EA will be releasing the C&C Tiberian Dawn and Red Alert source code under GPL3 reddit.com \| points: 570 \| comments: 124

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Ray tracing in notepad.exe at 30 FPS kylehalladay.com \| points: 532 \| comments: 64

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Spotify signs ‘The Joe Rogan Experience’ to an exclusive multi-year deal techcrunch.com \| points: 406 \| comments: 690

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SSH Agent Explained smallstep.com \| points: 348 \| comments: 34

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Subspace – A simple WireGuard VPN server GUI github.com \| points: 292 \| comments: 84

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Average adult will spend 34 years of their life staring at screens studyfinds.org \| points: 288 \| comments: 238

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Surviving Depression vishnu.tech \| points: 236 \| comments: 103

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The evidence behind putting money directly in the pockets of the poor ox.ac.uk \| points: 230 \| comments: 220

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Signal PINs signal.org \| points: 221 \| comments: 185

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Unofficial APIs github.com \| points: 209 \| comments: 56

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The State of the AWK lwn.net \| points: 204 \| comments: 80

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U.S. arrests former Green Beret, son, in connection with Ghosn escape from Japan wsj.com \| points: 201 \| comments: 260

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15 years later: remote code execution in qmail qualys.com \| points: 196 \| comments: 66

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It’s 2020 and I’m using image maps videoinu.com \| points: 194 \| comments: 99

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Welcome to C# 9.0 devblogs.microsoft.com \| points: 184 \| comments: 134

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Sell Yourself, Sell Your Work solipsys.co.uk \| points: 177 \| comments: 82

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Free, open and collaborative routing service maps.openrouteservice.org \| points: 176 \| comments: 52

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Lovely Week with Elixir ramblingcode.dev \| points: 173 \| comments: 82

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